@Spatzi:First of all i am sorry for my bad english. Maybe i should say the rules are not clear instead of the rule is wrong. I dont know.I have the german version from Spiel 2015 in germany, and in my german rules are many things not mentioned. You see that, when you play the game often. And the iconography of the staff cards says something different and the rulebook says something different. Same with the emperor tiles. The Icons says occupied and the german rule says any room. The word occupied i cant see.

The staff card Veranstaltungsleiter had -1 Money as an Icon and in the german rule you hear nothing about -1 money.

Another staff card Direktionsassistent shows "2" Victory Points and in the rulebook says you gain "4" Victory points for every staff card.

Many issues:- At Page 5 it says shuffle the staff cards and take the set from the Variant, but you cant see where this variant is. It is at page 8. There must be like this (look at page 8) but this is missing.

- The wooden disc for money track is too big, why not a "cube" in player colour.

- Everywhere you read Customer cards, but in Hotel business you must say "Guests".

- While the "Preparation" the last player takes a guest card and then refill, why? Why refilling, where is the balance between last player and first player, when you always refill and every player have 4 cards to choose from.

- While the Preparation every player can put 3 rooms on his board. How? Simutaneosly or in player order? Because when 3 people take red rooms and one player take more yellow rooms, than the 3 player will have a fight in the first turns over the red guests.

One last thought. There are timing issues with the game that aren't discussed in the rules. It reminds me of Tom Lehman explaining that the rules for Favor of the Pharaoh were purposely written to be understood firstly by casual gamers and so they intentionally left out some timing details. That seems the same here. But again, with a little reading of the threads here and a play or two, it'll all make since. If not, shoot me a geek message and I'll see if I can help.

I agree there are some mistakes between rules and cards. I havent seen anything major... I just rule in favour of the card or icon because every game says that cards trump whats written in the rules.

What timing issues is everyone talking about? I played this game once and i didnt experience any timing problems. Either i just didnt draw those specific cards or i played through and possibly got it wrong.

I have recently played Madeira and mombasa and have really never struggled with the rules like I'm struggling Here. Rulebook could use a complete rewrite. Ridiculous they charge 80 bucks for this and they could not even get the translation correct. I expected a more finely tuned product for this kind of money. Was this rushed to the printer? I'm going through my first game here for the last three hours trying to decipher all these cards and what these translated rules actually mean. Already had to resort to someone's homemade player aid.

Why are there no English words printed on these guest cards? In the rulebook they have an English translation but not on the actual cards. Why is the font so damn small? Someone actually proofed this and said "sure, that microscopic font is fine. Everyone will know what the card is by the costume the guy is wearing."

How could they add descriptions for these guests cards in the rules and not include photos of the cards? It takes a BGG member to fix this, to do Mayfair's job? Why such flimsy cards? I almost creased a card on my first shuffle. Are all Mayfair games like this? I will boycott the company after this.

Why did they use "each time you take a die Showing 4"? I'm still confused by this. Does it mean "each time you use the four die action space" or does it mean "If there are three dice in the four die action space I'm taking three dice"? I should've waited for a second Corrected printing.